Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...affected is impressed with the belief that his sight will be restored even if it has been lost for a long time, it comes back again no matter how this belief is conveyed to him. A positive assurance made by the person in whom he has faith will usually effect a cure. A typical instance of this is described in the little booklet, "What You Should Know About Eyes," forming one of the National Health Series published by Funk & Wagnalls...
...ferment of Labor activity which, with the President fishing and Congress loafing, continued to make most national news, reached a pipsqueak peak last week in Manhattan when, in effect, Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor went on strike. Actual strikers were most of the 135 employes of Fleischer Studios Inc., producers of Boop, Popeye and other animated cartoons. Shouldering placards displaying the cartoon characters and such legends as "We can't get much spinach on salaries as low as $15," they blocked the sidewalk in front of the Studio's building in Times Square, scuffled with police...
Nineteen other directors went out with him, and a new board of twelve was set up. consisting of six bankers, five actors and directors and a representative of Paul Joseph Goebbels' film chamber. In effect this meant that Propagandist Goebbels had gobbled the entire firm, for all the other directors were hand-picked...
...Friedrichshafen, where a larger sister of the Emdenburg is nearing completion, stunned workers doggedly kept at work though even Dr. Eckener admitted: "It is impossible to foretell what effect this acci- dent may have on the future of the airship...
...policy of "sterilizing" gold purchases, the Treasury has bought and put in cold storage more than $600,000,000 worth of yellow metal. The Treasury not only receives no return on this huge deadweight investment; it has to borrow the money to carry it. What has been happening, in effect, is that the U. S. has been buying most of the world's output of newly-mined gold. And this fact is the nub of logic in recurring reports about the U. S. dropping its gold buying price. Having about $11,700,000,000 worth of gold, one-half...